Audio Slideshow - Mapping Africa
Mapping Africa is a five minute narrated overview of the changing map of Africa from the 14th Century through today. The slideshow features explanations of the features of different historical maps of Africa.
Animated maps showing the imperial history of the Middle East and the spread of religions. The graphics are beautiful and provide a simple overview of the broad sweep of history. I've found these useful at the start of a unit/semester/term to provide a general introduction. My students think they need a hard rock track in the background as a soundtrack...
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Where has democracy dominated as the world's most popular form of government?
See 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds...
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History of Religion
How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries?
Imperial History of the Middle East
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of world events?
A large set of collections of photographs and images from a diverse range of time periods and places. Some of them only have sample images, however quite a few have full access. If only Diigo let us use more than 20 tags!